Hi everyone,
finaly I bought FM2 a few weeks ago (I know that it was released some years ago) and have a question how FM2 determines who the winner of the current Championship is.
I won 2 of 3 races and finished 2nd in the 3rd race. In my opinion, I placed first in the Championship, but FM2 decides, that I am 2nd.
Same issue appears, if a placed 2nd 2 times and 3rd in the last race → 3rd in Championship.
Why is that so? Is that “by design” or a bug, which exists since years?
greetings
kaepteniglo
Hello,
The Championships in FM2 are based on a point system. The first place winner of the race gets 10 points, second place gets 7 or 8, third place would get 5 or 6, and so on. Once all the races are done, your final points are added up and are compared to the A.I. In your case, you would receive however many points you earned throughout all three races over thirty (X/30). So it is possible that if the same A.I. drivers came in the same top spots (and 95% of the time they do), then they could have more points than you at the end of the Championship.
EDIT:
I actually am playing FM2 as of now, and just finished the R4 Championship. The results:
Me: 10 Points for first place in current race, 60/60 for cumulative total.
T. Archer: 7 points for second place in current race, 42/60 for cumulative total.
M. Galati: 5 points for third place in current race, 25/60 for cumulative total.
S. Whelen: 4 points for fourth place in current race, 17/60 for cumulative total.
P. McClure: 3 points for fifth place in current race, 19/60 for cumulative total.
A. Zampredi: 2 points for sixth place in current race, 22/60 for cumulative total.
R. Liddell: 1 point for seventh place in current race, 7/60 for cumulative total.
P. Cunningham: 0 points for eighth place in current race, 0/60 for cumulative total.
(This is assuming by Championship you mean the World Trophy events in the Professional Series, and not the Regional Championships events. If you are referring to those, then they are won just like any other event. Finish first in all races and you win the car prize. To officially answer your question, it would be “by design.” )
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Hello,
I was asking for the “normal” races, where you can manually select the order of tracks you race. Now I know, that I only have to won the Gold trophy to get the car prizes 
The Pro-Series is more like a Championship with the Points. Today I raced my first Pro-Series Class D-Championship and saw that there is a real point ranking.
Thank you for claryfying my “Problem”.